Maybe it's the post-summer doldrums or a race to get ready for holiday entertaining, but color experts say more people paint their homes in October than any other month.
Whether inside or outside, cooler temperatures, sunny skies and mild breezes to dissipate fumes make October ideal for painting.
With thousands of colors and styles available, selecting the right look for a room or entryway often takes longer than the project itself. Consider these things:
RESOURCES
• For what's new in color trends and styles, visit prattandlambert.com.
• Looking for textures and patterns? Visit valspar.com.
• A good source for information on painting the house, including how much paint to use is the Rohm and Haas Paint Quality Institute at paintquality.com/index.html.
• To see new products to make painting easier, visit shurline.com.
• The October/November issue of Fine Homebuilding Magazine explores the quality of paints. See it online at taunton.com/finehomebuilding/design.
• In addition to colors, be it cowslip 4 (yellow) or ivy wreath (green), there also are textures. Selections include venetian plaster, brushed suede, metallic, granite crystals and anything that starts with "faux."
• Behr, Valspar and Benjamin Moore offer online assistance and interactive help in picking paint. The "Never Compromise" Color System from Pratt & Lambert Paints includes ways to decorate with 1,056 colors.
• Painting tools have been updated, including painter's tape, brushes, rollers and items that eliminate the need for painter's tape.
• A trim tool and tray combo from Zibra (enjoyzibra.com) eliminates the need for tape, while a roller tool ejects paint-laden roller sleeves with the press of a button.
• Paint rollers coated with Teflon may cut painting time by 30 percent and make clean-up easier. Teflon-coated products from Newell Rubbermaid Co.'s Shur-Line division increase roller paint pick-up and release. Paint cleans easier from Teflon-coated rollers, so it's less tempting to throw it out.
• There's an interior design tool called the E-Z Decorator System to help you create quality designs and see what they'll look like before paint touches the wall (ezdecorator.com).
• Obnoxious paint fumes have decreased steadily with government regulations limiting the release of volatile organic compounds, known as VOCs.
Now you can buy paint with no VOCs. ICI Paints North America says its Freshaire Choice paint has no VOCs in the base or colorant (thefreshairechoicepaint.com).
Whether inside or outside, cooler temperatures, sunny skies and mild breezes to dissipate fumes make October ideal for painting.
With thousands of colors and styles available, selecting the right look for a room or entryway often takes longer than the project itself. Consider these things:
RESOURCES
• For what's new in color trends and styles, visit prattandlambert.com.
• Looking for textures and patterns? Visit valspar.com.
• A good source for information on painting the house, including how much paint to use is the Rohm and Haas Paint Quality Institute at paintquality.com/index.html.
• To see new products to make painting easier, visit shurline.com.
• The October/November issue of Fine Homebuilding Magazine explores the quality of paints. See it online at taunton.com/finehomebuilding/design.
• In addition to colors, be it cowslip 4 (yellow) or ivy wreath (green), there also are textures. Selections include venetian plaster, brushed suede, metallic, granite crystals and anything that starts with "faux."
• Behr, Valspar and Benjamin Moore offer online assistance and interactive help in picking paint. The "Never Compromise" Color System from Pratt & Lambert Paints includes ways to decorate with 1,056 colors.
• Painting tools have been updated, including painter's tape, brushes, rollers and items that eliminate the need for painter's tape.
• A trim tool and tray combo from Zibra (enjoyzibra.com) eliminates the need for tape, while a roller tool ejects paint-laden roller sleeves with the press of a button.
• Paint rollers coated with Teflon may cut painting time by 30 percent and make clean-up easier. Teflon-coated products from Newell Rubbermaid Co.'s Shur-Line division increase roller paint pick-up and release. Paint cleans easier from Teflon-coated rollers, so it's less tempting to throw it out.
• There's an interior design tool called the E-Z Decorator System to help you create quality designs and see what they'll look like before paint touches the wall (ezdecorator.com).
• Obnoxious paint fumes have decreased steadily with government regulations limiting the release of volatile organic compounds, known as VOCs.
Now you can buy paint with no VOCs. ICI Paints North America says its Freshaire Choice paint has no VOCs in the base or colorant (thefreshairechoicepaint.com).
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